Mirror.co.uk - BUSH ARRIVES FOR HISTORIC VISIT
No 10 confirmed that details of Mr Bush's meeting with relatives of dead troops were still in the air.
Mr Bush wants to tell the families their loved ones died for a "noble cause".
Downing Street admitted the president would meet relatives, and soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, on Thursday.
But asked if that included relatives of troops killed in this year's Iraq conflict, Mr Blair's spokesman replied: "The precise composition is still being worked on."
It implied Mr Bush will not meet those bereaved families who believe the public was misled into conflict.
The Defence Ministry increased confusion by insisting all plans were finalised.
An official said: "There'll be a meeting between Mr Bush and some of the families who lost loved ones in Iraq. But we're not releasing information."
Standing by his decision to invite Mr Bush, Mr Blair told the CBI conference at Birmingham yesterday: "This is the right moment for us to stand firm with the US.
"I believe terrorism to be the threat of the 21st century. Now is not the time to waver, now is the time to see it through.
"I understand how deeply people feel if they have lost a loved one. That's why you do not take a decision to go to war lightly." But Reg Keys - father of Lance Corporal Thomas Keys, who died in Iraq - said: "Bush is saying our troops died for a noble cause.
"Soldiers in the First and Second World Wars died for a noble cause because they were trying to repel a country that wanted to invade us. But what threat was Iraq to us?
"We were led to believe Saddam was about to unleash weapons of mass destruction on us. So Thomas and his colleagues went to war. These weapons have never materialised. I feel deceived."
Charles Kennedy called on the public to join protests against Mr Bush. He said: "We should use this opportunity to leave him in no doubt as to the extent of public concern at the way events unfolded."
Let us not address our critics. Let us ignore them until they go away or STFU.